![]() To the woman he said, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing in pain you shall bring forth children. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel." And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.īut the LORD God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?" And he said, "I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself." He said, "Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?" The man said, "The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate." Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths. Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate. And because we're united to Jesus Christ, we move from a life of death, into a new life of eternal life with God forevermore. But when we repent of our sins and trust in Jesus Christ, we're united to a new head, Jesus Christ. So by blood, we're related to Adam and Eve. So the Bible also teaches, Paul teaches in First Corinthians that all in Adam die, but all in Jesus Christ are made alive. Now, the counterpart to the fall in Christian thinking is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So every human being that's related to Adam and Eve, and that's everyone, is affected by the sin. And it's transmitted through all the posterity of Adam and Eve. But this big idea is that death came into the world, separation and alienation for the human race and their relationship to God. God also said there'll be greater pain in bringing forth children into the world. We know, for example, that God cursed the ground. As a result, death came into the world and God's curses came into the world. So this is the big idea when they sin, when they fail from God's goodness, they brought sin into the world. And by this one man, death was brought into the world." So Paul will say in Romans 5, that, "Through one man sin entered into the world. So when Adam and Eve sin, they became enslaved to sin in a sense, the Bible says, but also when they brought forth children into the world, their children were also brought into this slavery or bondage to sin. They eventually died for their rebellion against God, but it also brought about repercussions for all of the human race. Now, the reason why this is so significant in Christian thinking is the fall or the sin of Adam and Eve did not just have consequences for Adam and Eve. They eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God told them not to eat from. ![]() And he tempts them to rebel against the creator. When Christians refer to the fall, they're referring to the incident in Genesis 3, where the serpent comes to the first man and the first woman that God has created, Adam and Eve.
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